Port Morris wasteland dreams of green
The industrial area at the borough’s southernmost tip is a place of trucks, factories and fumes, with little to offer humans who travel by foot or by bike, or want…
Whose South Bronx Greenway is it anyway?
A number of Mott Haven community leaders are complaining that they have been left out of planning the South Bronx Greenway’s future. At stake, they argue, is not only recreation…
Mott Haven march denounces gun violence
By Joe Hirsch [email protected] Naisha Pearson was just 10 years old when she was gunned downed in Saw Mill Park on East 139th Street. She was playing at a Labor…
Feds charge Arroyo kin with embezzlement
Housing money paid for politicians’ trips, says complaint Taxpayer funds intended for two low-income housing projects in Mott Haven paid for trips to Puerto Rico for Councilwoman Maria del Carmen…
Buy-back takes an arsenal off Bronx streets
By Azriel James Relph [email protected] When you subtract nearly a thousand guns from the arsenals of residents, what do you get? Safer Bronx streets, say the organizers of the Fourth…
Lawsuit seeks to block Randall's Island deal
Several South Bronx and East Harlem organizations and residents filed suit on May 27 in an effort to keep the city from carrying out its plan to reserve most of…
Earthfest ’09
Local non-profits, government agencies and environmental activists provided hands-on activities and information on everything from paddling the Bronx River to conserving energy in your home at the second annual South…
New borough chief will bring change
Diaz emphasizes spending on schools and green jobs By Caroline Linton [email protected] The Bronx Borough President’s race was all about the numbers: 21; two; $200; $270,000; three and 149. Twenty-one…